dalai lama kisses indian boy
The Dalai
Lama has apologised after he faced allegations of inappropriate
behaviour after kissing a young boy on the lips and asking him to “suck his
tongue” at a public event in India.
The interaction, which took place in late February at the Dalai
Lama’s temple in Dharamshala, was attended by about 100 young students who had
just graduated from the Indian M3M Foundation.
The Dalai Lama, Tenzin
Gyatso, is the holiest figure in Tibetan Buddhism and
has lived in exile in India since 1959, when Tibet was annexed by China.
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In a video that has gone viral, one of the young male students
approached a microphone at the event and asked the Dalai Lama: “Can I hug you?”
The Dalai Lama, 87, told the boy to come up to the platform
where he was seated. Motioning to his cheek, he is heard saying “first here”,
after which the child kissed him and gave him a hug.
The Dalai Lama kept hold of the boy, saying “I think here also”
and then planted a kiss on his lips. “And suck my tongue,” the Dalai Lama then
said, sticking out his tongue, forehead to forehead with the student. The boy
quickly stuck out his own tongue and went to move away while the Dalai Lama
laughed and pulled the boy in for another hug, as the audience laughed.
The spiritual leader then spoke to the boy, advising him to look
to those who create “peace and happiness” and not to follow “human beings who always
kill other people”, before giving him a final hug.
As the video spread across the internet it was condemned by
many, who called it “inappropriate”, “scandalous” and “disgusting”. The
controversy prompted an apology from the office of the Dalai Lama, who said his
behaviour had been “innocent and playful”.
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